Personal development

Many of us may have spare capacity over the next couple of months. While this is clearly not ideal, it’s an opportunity for us to work on improving our businesses and ourselves. With this in mind I am offering free access to practical online business courses. You can click on this link to register but …

One thing for sure in todays economy is that “business as usual” isn’t an option. Implementing change is never easy but if you’re operating in the Northern Territory its probably never been so important. As a business leader change must start with you but what do you change? One approach I’ve found helpful is to …

Most people who own or manage a business are good at what they do (construction, healthcare, hospitality, etc). Unfortunately being good at what you do is not by itself sufficient to make a success of your business. You can make the most beautiful product in the world, or provide the most fantastic service possible but …

Everyone I know recognises they sometimes don’t have enough time to get stuff done. Some people however always seem to be time poor. In this article I’m going to mention four different strategies that I’ve seen help people make better use of their time, but the real clincher that could make any of them work …

Success means different things to different people. However we often fall short of our goals and this mostly because of our own bad habits. Here is a summary of great article by Gavin Sequeira who identifies five reasons why many people fall short of their goals. Not having a vision or a plan Many people …

One of the biggest failures in planning is not the quality of the strategies or actions developed but the lack of effective implementation. One page plans can solve this problem and the good news is they are not hard to do. One page plans can be developed in minutes and can be updated just as …

People sometimes lose sight of key aspects of their lives and it is not unusual to put too much effort into one or two aspects to the detriment of others. A common example is placing financial success as the ultimate personal performance measure. However, there are other facets of life that are equally as important …

When we make decisions we often know that we should do one thing, but don’t want to make that choice. This is because we often experience conflict between what we should do, and what we want to do. Everyday life is filled with examples of the most virtuous intentions gone awry. People report intending to …